How to tell a horse’s age

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CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 190 pts · 85d (12 replies)

My horse was a gift. I'm not allowed to look in it's mouth.

StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works · 74 pts · 85d (6 replies)

Holy shit is that why it's a thing? Cause you would be checking the age and it's rude?

LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 84d

I thought it was more generally the health of the horse? Apparently it's both

neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 84d (3 replies)

Yes, I've been told this is why. Because then you'd know if it was a good gift or not.

Source: A Newfie I used to work with eons ago.

Flagstaff@programming.dev · 2 pts · 83d (2 replies)

A who?

imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 83d (1 reply)

A person from Newfoundland

Flagstaff@programming.dev · 1 pts · 83d

Huh, never heard of this before, haha. Thanks.

pdxfed@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 84d

Yes.

Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 84d (4 replies)

Was it a trojan horse?

CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 84d (3 replies)

The horse told me it was Durex.

davidagain@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 84d (2 replies)

That's one mighty big condom.

CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 84d (1 reply)

The horse sized ones aren't OTC. You have to ask the pharmacist as they are behind the counter. Not because they are prescription strength or anything. Apparently its because climatologists keep stealing them for low altitude weather balloons.

davidagain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 84d

You know if you know, I guess.

I had a classmate at school who used to boast that he could suck his own dick. We expressed incredulity, but it was a weird flex for one so homophobic.

My wife has had no complaints. Well, not on that topic at least.

cirdanlunae@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 56 pts · 85d (1 reply)

The teeth Squidward used to eat his first Krabby Patty

SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 84d

We can now verify that Squidward is in fact a 30 year old horse

abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 42 pts · 85d (4 replies)

What is that line?

Kirp123@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 85d (2 replies)

From Wikipedia:

The Galvayne's groove occurs on the upper corner incisor, producing a vertical line, and is helpful in approximating the age of older horses. It generally first appears at age 10, reaches halfway down the tooth by age 15, and is completely down the tooth at age 20. It then begins to disappear, usually half-way gone by age 25, and completely gone by age 30. The groove is named after horse expert Sydney Frederick Galvayne who claimed he had invented the use the groove to age a horse; however, it had been earlier described by his teacher Professor Hamilton Sample.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 84d

Galvayne who claimed he had invented the use the groove to age a horse; however, it had been earlier described by his teacher Professor Hamilton Sample.

What a prick lol

Colalextrast@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 84d

But if we called it the Sample Line we'd confuse it with the lines at Costco, and we can't have that. The Sample Lines are too important.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 84d

what, you don't got tooth line? hey everyone, laugh at abbadon. they don't got tooth line

essell@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 84d

bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 39 pts · 85d (4 replies)

How to tell the age of an Englishman:

BCsven@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 84d (2 replies)

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 84d
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too_high_for_this@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 83d

Nah, it's different when their inbred

Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 84d

Smashing!

Zozano@aussie.zone · 37 pts · 84d (4 replies)

marius@feddit.org · 15 pts · 84d (3 replies)

27 I'd say

FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 1 pts · 84d (2 replies)

Nah, Squid's quintessentially middle aged.

I'd say Sponge seems like an impressionable 20s-something, and Patrick has the vibe of some overly confident know-nothing 30 yr old haha

Zozano@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 84d

I had a hard enough time converting cat years to human years.

Don't make me do squid to horse.

pbjelly@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 83d

There’s a throwaway line in the early season (1 or 2) where he complains about something related to him and that he’s been around for 30ish years and it blew my mind cause I thought he was a teen when I was a teen.

I can’t seem to find this quote anywhere because film blogs all want to reference the driver’s license dream as his canon birthday but I swear there’s an early episode with this line.

Akasazh@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 84d (4 replies)

rmuk@feddit.uk · 14 pts · 84d (3 replies)

Amazing!

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 84d (2 replies)

Give him a lick

FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 7 pts · 84d (1 reply)

Tastes just like raisins!

JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 83d

Shut up woman. Get on my horse.

leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 85d (1 reply)

So that's where “long on the tooth” comes from.

MurrayL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 84d

Well, sort of. While it does refer to horses, it’s actually a reference to how their gums recede as they get older, making the teeth look longer (at least according to Brewer’s).

Grimy@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 85d

Really thought this was a picture about the Alien monster extracting mouth thing.

LodeMike@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 84d

Peetah, The Haourse is here.

Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 84d

this is a future meme

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 84d

LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 84d (2 replies)

This isn't always accurate if your horse has neglected teeth. Make sure to schedule those floats, y'all.

cholesterol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 84d (1 reply)

Ok, I will

LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 83d

👍

ChronophobianQ@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 84d (2 replies)

What would a 100 year old horses teeth look like?

Zozano@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 84d

They get triple stripes on account of the prestige system.

GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 84d

Kind of like the 30-year-old teeth, but with no skin and gums...

webp@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 84d (4 replies)

How does 35 look?

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 84d

You just typed it. It looks like a three and five next to each other, in that order.

What'a ya? Dense, or somethin'?

petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 84d (1 reply)

That brown stripe just keeps circling around like it's loading new teeth.

FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 2 pts · 84d

lmao

UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 84d

He ded

Fleur_@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 83d

Which one y'all rather put your dick in